ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, President . Typed letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") as President, to Univ. of California President Benjamin I. Wheeler, Oyster Bay, New York, 22 August 1904. 1 page, 4to, integral blank, White House stationery . "THE FRIENDS OF ORDER HAVE THEMSELVES COMMITTED SOME PRETTY LAWLESS ACTS" A strong letter, commenting on the bloody suppression of a Colorado coal strike: "...I have seen young Garrett, and will ask Chairman [and Secretary of Commerce and Labor George B.] Cortelyou to help him in every way he can. I think your diagnosis of the situation is admirable, and I shall try to make our record of things done as prominent as possible. The Colorado situation is most unfortunate, because in stamping on hideous lawlessness, the friends of order have themselves committed some pretty lawless acts, if my information is correct. This will tend to neutralize what was else a distinct radical movement away from [Democratic Presidential candidate Alton B.] Parker..." In 1903, Colorado mine owners called in the state militia to suppress a strike called by the Western Federation of Miners. TR refused to intervene, even after the militia fired upon the unarmed strikers (Nathan Miller, Theodore Roosevelt, A Life , pp. 378-379).
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, President . Typed letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") as President, to Univ. of California President Benjamin I. Wheeler, Oyster Bay, New York, 22 August 1904. 1 page, 4to, integral blank, White House stationery . "THE FRIENDS OF ORDER HAVE THEMSELVES COMMITTED SOME PRETTY LAWLESS ACTS" A strong letter, commenting on the bloody suppression of a Colorado coal strike: "...I have seen young Garrett, and will ask Chairman [and Secretary of Commerce and Labor George B.] Cortelyou to help him in every way he can. I think your diagnosis of the situation is admirable, and I shall try to make our record of things done as prominent as possible. The Colorado situation is most unfortunate, because in stamping on hideous lawlessness, the friends of order have themselves committed some pretty lawless acts, if my information is correct. This will tend to neutralize what was else a distinct radical movement away from [Democratic Presidential candidate Alton B.] Parker..." In 1903, Colorado mine owners called in the state militia to suppress a strike called by the Western Federation of Miners. TR refused to intervene, even after the militia fired upon the unarmed strikers (Nathan Miller, Theodore Roosevelt, A Life , pp. 378-379).
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